I'm not sure if reading this article will help me change my ways, but it definitely stirred up some emotion in me. In the article, Erin Templeton relates her academic career to a personal finance blog tenet: the perfect is the enemy of the good. Erin explains, “the basic idea here, financially speaking, is that the quest for perfection whether the lowest interest rate, the best price, or the ideal time to start building an emergency fund leads us to put off doing the one thing that is most important in becoming fiscally healthy: getting started.”
I am constantly bogged down and paralyzed by perfection. I think that my desire for perfection is the main reason that I don't get things done until the last minute—including my course assignments. Ironically, my assignments are never perfect; nevertheless, I've toiled over them and suffered much frustration in the process. I think it's important to strive towards perfection sometimes, but I should probably learn to pick and choose my battles more carefully.
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